At 10:01 AM 8/30/2005 +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
>Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>> >> Check out (and Pythonify) the ANSI M[UMPS] $PIECE(). See:
> >> http://www.jacquardsystems.com/Examples/function/piece.htm> >
> > As far as I can see, either you misunderstand what partition() does, or
> > I'm
> > completely misunderstanding what $PIECE does. As far as I can tell,
> > $PIECE
> > and partition() have absolutely nothing in common except that they take
> > strings as arguments. :)
>>both split on a given token. partition splits once, and returns all three
>parts, while piece returns the part you ask for
No, because looking at that URL, there is no piece that is the token split
on. partition() always returns 3 parts for 1 occurrence of the token,
whereas $PIECE only has 2.
>(the 3-argument form is
>similar to x.split(s)[i])
Which is quite thoroughly unlike partition.